O palco agora é rua: a identidade das danças urbanas na cidade de Santa Maria/RS em sua trajetória histórica

Abstract

This study aims to provide an in-depth space so that members of the Hip Hop culture of Santa Maria - RS, especially Urban Dances can manifest themselves, in an attempt to dispel stereotypes attributed to culture and reproduced by the hegemonic media. For this, I present the (re)configuration of the identity of Urban Dances in the city with historical contextualization of Hip Hop culture through interviews with dancers and choreographers who marked the historical trajectory within the local Urban Dances. In the methodology I present my trajectory as a dancer and the entire process of construction of the product of this research, which is an audiovisual dance production, with Santa Maria as a backdrop. The production showed me the importance of experimenting with other ways of presenting Urban Dances, with a bias that refers to the study of urban culture and the representation of its identity. Throughout the work, I realized that, from the rise of Hip-Hop culture to the present time, there were many changes in the dance culture, starting with the movement styles practiced that were adapting according to the context in which they were inserted.